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  • On the Balance of Work and Study

    How can we make time and space in our busy—and seemingly ever busier—lives for the life of the mind?  Join our Philosophical Happy Hour this week as we strive together for a more balanced way of life. For much of human history, the life of the mind has been a domain of the privileged few—reserved,…

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  • Meet the Columbanus Fellows: Joshua Streeter

    Today we continue highlighting some of our Columbanus Fellows, demonstrating the quality of our endeavors! These fellows are engaged in a rigorous and deep inquiry into the Western intellectual tradition, seeking both to retrieve lost wisdom and to further its presence in our society today. Joshua A. Streeter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of…

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  • Meet the Columbanus Fellows: Lance Gracy

    Over the next several months we will highlight a few of our Columbanus Fellows, bringing to light the character of students engaged in our program! These fellows are engaged in a rigorous and deep inquiry into the Western intellectual tradition, seeking both to retrieve lost wisdom and to further its presence in our society today. Lance…

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  • This Week [2/28-3/6]

    Moving into our Spring quarter already! Seminars and more at the Lyceum Institute.

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  • [Winter 2021] Ethics: The Good Life

    Can we be happy?  At times, looking around in our twenty-first century world, it would seem that “happiness” is a contingent, fleeting and difficult-to-grasp matter more of luck than of choice and action.  Such a view stems from an implicitly nihilistic worldview, one unconsciously imbibed by many today, in which meaning is imposed upon the…

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